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We’re excited to announce that Front Porch Forum now has 100,000 members across Vermont. More than one-third of the households in the state participate in their local FPFs. Thanks to all who have helped achieve this milestone.

To share FPF with other Vermonters, please send them to FrontPorchForum.com to check it out and sign up.

FPF’s mission is to help neighbors connect and build community. We do that by hosting a statewide network of online neighborhood forums where Vermonters post about lost pets, borrowing ladders, recommending plumbers, sighting moose, reporting break-ins, discussing school budgets, and much more.

“VCRD launched the Vermont Digital Economy Project to offer free support to speed flood recovery, spur economic development and job growth, and improve community resilience to disasters. The project worked directly with Vermont towns affected by 2011’s floods to help businesses, nonprofits and municipalities expand their use of online tools. Together with project partners, we helped increase digital literacy and online workforce training, added Wi-Fi and other public access points, brought a community-based social network to every Vermont town, created town websites and community calendars, promoted the use of “cloud” applications, and provided customized small-business and nonprofit training.”

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UPDATE: Congratulations to our lucky drawing winner, Mary B., from Fair Haven, VT. She invited three friends who all signed up immediately and started participating on their local FPF!

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People join their local Front Porch Forum when they hear about it from someone they know. Spread the word to your Vermont contacts, and be entered to win an iPad mini!

Here’s how to enter:

Use FPF’s Invitation feature to invite as many Vermonters as you like (FPF is now available in every town and neighborhood in the state). You’ll be entered into the raffle once for each person who actually signs up for a new FPF account by Dec. 5, 2014.

Enter one legitimate email address of a Vermonter you know into each row. Click ADD ANOTHER if you want to enter more than three email addresses. Don’t worry if you’re not sure if your friend is already an FPF member… our system will NOT send invitations to email addresses already used by FPF accounts. Be sure to click SEND INVITE to finish.

We will verify that the iPad winner adhered to the letter and the spirit of this raffle (so please play nice!). It’s all about spreading the word about Front Porch Forum to more Vermonters — helping neighbors connect and build community.

If your web browser asks you if you want it to remember this login information, select “yes.”

To have your login information remembered by your computer, you may need to adjust your web browser’s preferences/settings to allow “cookies” for the FrontPorchForum.com website.

ENSURE CONSISTENT DELIVERY of your FPF e-newsletters:

Please add these email addresses to your email’s address book/contact list: [your FPF’s name]@frontporchforum.com (i.e., the email address in the FROM field of your FPF e-newsletter) and sender@postageapp.com.

Check your spam filter for FPF e-newsletters. If you find any, please mark them as NOT SPAM. Please do NOT mark any email message from FPF as spam.

Tell your email provider that messages from the following addresses are not spam and that they should be “white listed:” [your FPF’s name]@frontporchforum.com and sender@postageapp.com.

If you stop using your current email addresses, please update the email address on your existing FPF account (rather than creating a new FPF account for this new email address). To do so, login to FPF and click MY ACCOUNT.

This past year, Front Porch Forum helped a LOT of Vermonters find plumbers and lost pets, and keep watch when prowlers roamed. Many neighbors have found FPF’s service invaluable. And… we need your help to keep it going strong.

Please become a Supporting Member today and help us reach this years $75,000 statewide goal. Contribute here:

Neighbors use FPF to connect and build community in hundreds of ways… organizing block parties, reporting vandalism, finding snow removal help, rallying in the face of crisis, sharing Town Meeting info, and much more. As a member from Huntingtons FPF said, “To have this staggering amount of connectedness is invaluable. You are getting the bargain of your life.

We’re working hard to improve Front Porch Forum — now available in every Vermont town! — and we need your help to make it all happen. Each fall we pass the hat among FPF members asking for contributions to help provide this service.

Vermont Connected will be the culmination of the work of the Vermont Digital Economy Project, looking forward to Vermont’s future and sharing recent lessons learned from helping small businesses, nonprofits and towns in Vermont to effectively use digital tools. Tracks include:

A: All 251! Every community in the state now has its own local FPF. More than 80,000 households (out of the 260,000 total that exist in Vermont) participate, with thousands more joining every month.

John just posted on his FPF…

I’m new to this forum. Hope we can get everyone on West Road in Chittenden to sign up. We drive by each other rushing back and forth to work. This forum could be a beginning conversation for us to keep in touch… I would like to see sharing of garden crops, arranging get togethers, etc. Anyone out there from West Road?